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9163
LEARNING
OBJECTIVES
After studying this module, you as a NSTP
REPUBLIC ACT 9163
Graduates should be able to:
1. Differentiate the three components of NSTP; January 23, 2002 will be remembered in the
2. Identify the teaching learning experiences Philippine history as the birth date of the long sought
cantered in the NSTP subject; reforms in the Reserve Officers Training Corps
3. Understand the legal basis of NSTP; (ROTC). This is in response to the clamor of
4. Develop a sense of appreciation regarding parents, students and the academe for the
the implementing rules and regulations of amendment of the program. Republic Act 9163 was
the NSTP; and put into law creating the National Service Training
5. Recite explicitly the different Rules and Program, which took effect in SY 2002-2003. This
sections embodied in the NSTP Act of 2001.
is a landmark legislation as it superseded three laws
in a span of 65 years.
TOPIC
OUTLINE Evolution of NSTP
2. Literacy Training Service [LTS] – refers Schools that do not meet the required number of
to the program component designed to train students to maintain the optional ROTC and any of
the students to become teachers of literacy the NSTP components, or do not offer the
and numeracy skills to school children, component chosen by the students, shall allow their
out-of-school youths and other segments students to cross-enroll to other schools, whether the
of society in need of their services.
said school is under CHED or TESDA, for students
taking the ROTC whether the two semesters shall be
3. Reserve Officers Training Corps [ROTC] taken from different schools as long it is
– refers to the program component, administered/managed by different branches of
institutionalized under section 38 and 39 of service of the AFP.
Republic Act No. 7077, designed to provide
military training to tertiary level students in
order to motivate, train, organize and
mobilize them for national defense Students who cross-enroll shall be subject to the
preparedness. existing rules and regulations of the school of origin
and the accepting school.
4. Program Component – refers to the service
components of the NSTP
PROGRAM
5. Clustering - refers to the grouping of IMPLEMENTATION
student’s enrolled in different schools and
taking up the same NSTP component into
one group under the management and
supervision of a designated school.
WHO ARE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE ONE
NSTP COMPONENT OF THEIR CHOICE AS
A GRADUATION REQUIREMENT
a. All incoming freshmen students, male and PASUC – Philippine Association of State
female, starting enrolled in any Universities and Colleges
baccalaureate and at least two-year
technical-vocational or associate courses, COCOPEA – Coordinating Council of Private
are required to complete one NSTP Educational Association of the
component of their choice, as a graduation Philippines
requirement.
g. Fees and Incentives and Scholarship -
Higher and Technical Vocational
b. Each NSTP program components shall be Institutions shall collect basic tuition fee not
undertaken for an academic period of two more than fifty percent (50%) of what is
(2) semesters. It shall also be taken in one currently charged by schools per unit. In
summer program in lieu of the two (2) case of ROTC, the DND shall formulate and
semester’s program. adopt a program of assistance and/or
incentive to those students who will take the
said component.
c. All higher and technical vocational
educational institutions, public and private,
must offer at least one of the NSTP The school authorities concerned, CHED
components.
and TESDA shall ensure that group
insurance for health and accident shall be
d. State Universities and Colleges [SUC’s], provided for students enrolled in any of the
shall offer the ROTC component and at least NSTP components.
one other NSTP component.
e. The Philippine Military Academy (PMA), What will become of NSTP graduates?
Philippine Merchant Academy (PMMA),
Philippine National Police Academy
(PNPA), and other SUC’s of similar nature,
are exempted from NSTP in view of the Graduates of the non-ROTC components
special character of this institutions. shall belong to the National Service Reserve
Corps (NSRC), which could be tapped by the
state for literacy and civic welfare activities.
f. Private higher and technical-vocational Graduates of the ROTC component shall form
education institutions with at least 350
part of the AFP Citizen Armed Force, subject to
student cadets may offer the ROTC
component and consequently DND requirements.
establish/maintain a Department of Military
Science and Tactics (DMST), subject to the
existing rules and regulations of the Armed
Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Guidelines for the Establishment of the National
Service Reserve Corps (NSRC)
LEARNING
To provide a trained and motivated ACTIVITY 1
manpower pool that can be tapped by the State for
civic welfare, literacy and other similar endeavors in
Answer the following questions in a
the service of nation.
piece of paper or in a form of a document word.
C. Composition
SUMMARY
The NSRC shall be composed of the The National Service Training Program is a
graduates of the Civic welfare Training Service program aimed at enhancing civic
(CWTS) and Literacy Training Service (LTS) consciousness and defense preparedness in
components of the NSTP. the youth by developing the ethics of
service and patriotism while undergoing
training in any of its three (3) program
components. These various component are
REFERENCES
Prepared by:
JERRY J. DICHOSO
PROGRAM HEAD, NSTP